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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2022-11-22 - 2022-11-28
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7282 (+395 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4489 (+314 from last week) (2269 new, 2220 continued)
- 0.75% of all 595226 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Addams Family makes a dramatic jump this week, from rank 11 to the top of the chart. I don't have real data, but it certainly seems like Netflix-based fandoms are very popular and very volatile this year, leading to much less stability at the top of the chart than I've seen since I started this project.
- Goncharov is also on the move, making it up to rank 6 this week. (Technically, this is a bit of a data error on my part: Katya and Sofia are OCs, which I don't normally count. But the internet is having fun with this, and I'm happy for the stats to have fun with it too.)
- Legacies enters the chart at rank 19 after a little while away, replacing Gideon the Ninth which leaves the chart after a two week run.
- I saw posts for multiple upcoming femslash exchanges this week:
- Rare Femslash Exchange is a fanfic and fanart exchange for femslash ships with fewer than 250 works on AO3. (That's a generous number of works for F/F. If you have to ask whether the ship you want to offer meets their criteria, it probably does, and you can probably offer it.) Nominations are open until December 11.
- Sapphic Stocking Stuffers is an exchange of short fic (based on the Yuletide "treats" idea) for F/F ships. It runs until January 2.
Most active classified fandoms:
| Rank | Fandom (and top three ships) | Rating for week | F/F works updated this week | % of F/F works updated this week | F/F:M/M ratio (all works) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (↑10) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (201) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (12) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (11) | 206.17 | 212 (+144) | 47.53% | 3:1 |
| 2 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (119) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (59) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (32) | 160.26 | 250 (+7) | 1.34% | 1:6 |
| 3 (↓) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (139) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (15) | 143.00 | 143 (+16) | 14.47% | 125:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (112) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (28) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (19) | 123.67 | 160 (-3) | 3.01% | 1:4 |
| 5 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (37) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (29) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (22) | 116.85 | 149 (+5) | 1.41% | 1:4 |
| 6 (↑11) | Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese - beelzeebub Katya (Goncharov (1973)),Sofia (Goncharov (1973)) (107) | 107.00 | 107 (+56) | 67.72% | 1.2:1 |
| 7 (↓3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (100) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (26) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (17) | 105.66 | 114 (-16) | 1.47% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↓2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (84) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (20) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (12) | 103.26 | 109 (-9) | 1.57% | 1.3:1 |
| 9 (↓2) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (17) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (17) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (16) | 91.09 | 94 (+14) | 4.63% | 1:1.1 |
| 10 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (51) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (10) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) | 79.07 | 82 (+10) | 0.26% | 29:1 |
| 11 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (33) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (20) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (19) | 75.44 | 118 (+16) | 0.75% | 1:6 |
| 12 (↑3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (58) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5) | 73.89 | 89 (+19) | 0.68% | 3:1 |
| 13 (↓4) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (77) Baela Targaryen,Helaena Targaryen (8) | 67.97 | 111 (+1) | 2.58% | 1:1.7 |
| 14 (↓6) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (44) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (15) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 65.11 | 69 (-3) | 1.67% | 3:1 |
| 15 (↑4) | Splatoon Frye (Splatoon),Shiver (Splatoon) (16) Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (16) Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (14) | 48.43 | 53 (+10) | 4.19% | 1.8:1 |
| 16 (↓2) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (32) River Song,Rose Tyler (7) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (6) | 43.21 | 55 (-12) | 0.71% | 1.1:1 |
| 17 (↓) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (23) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (19) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (18) | 41.00 | 44 (-13) | 1.47% | 18:1 |
| 18 (↓6) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (36) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (3) | 39.07 | 42 (-20) | 0.42% | 16:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (26) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (17) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (4) | 38.27 | 42 (?) | 0.91% | 10:1 |
| 20 (↓2) | A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (29) Jess McCready,Lupe García (9) Jo De Luca,Maybelle Fox (9) | 38.00 | 38 (-6) | 7.52% | 419:1 |
What is all this again?
Mission statement: help out people (including myself) who read fic on AO3 and wish they were reading more femslash, but don't know what's out there. Plan: do a week-in-review post every week which contains general stats about new fic and a few recs.
I am starting with the list of all works on ao3.org which were updated within a given week, and which were categorized as F/F, but I am not reporting stats on 100% of those works --- I'm narrowing down to a subset of fandoms and works for which it's tractable for me to actually look at all the character tags, and then I'm excluding ships containing what I believe to be cis-male characters. I'll give overall stats about how many works I've reported on and how many I've excluded. If you think I'm excluding a fandom you care about, please let me know!
More info about column headers:
- Fandom (and top three ships): If multiple tags that seem to correspond to the same fandom (e.g. "The 100 (TV)" and "The 100 Series - Kass Morgan") show up in my ranking, I report the one with the best rating. There's totally a judgment call here about what things are "the same fandom" --- I'm going to err on the side of reporting more different things when I can, but I won't skip something with a lot of works which aren't otherwise accounted for. When measuring the top three F/F ships in a fandom, I count both "A/B" and "A & B" as "A,B". Ties are broken by including all of the ships, but I only include a maximum of five ships per fandom to keep the table length reasonable.
- Rating for week: This is the number of works I classified as F/F, multiplied by what I call "F/F fidelity", which is the fraction of all works tagged F/F on AO3 that I classified as containing at least one F/F ship.
- F/F/ works updated this week: includes both new and continued works.
- % of F/F works updated this week: This is the percentage of all F/F works I've ever categorized in the fandom, so a big number probably means a brand new fandom, or at least one which was unusually active this week.
- F/F:M/M ratio (all works): This ratio is taken from all works in the fandom tag, and is just a hint to readers about how F/F-dominant the fandom is. Obviously there's no reason you can't find great F/F works in a predominantly male fandom (we've all read those), but the ratio may give a hint about whether the F/F pairing is likely to be the dominant one in a work with multiple pairings. Note that the "F/F" and "M/M" numbers for this column are taken directly from AO3, not from my compiled character and ship stats. (Since I don't categorize M/M works, I couldn't do it any other way.)
Known bugs which affect the accuracy of this data:
- AO3 does not modify the "last updated" date of a work in a revealed exchange when the exchange reveals, so my database can miss exchange works entirely if they're last edited awhile before the exchange works are revealed. This probably leads to a serious undercount of works in revealed exchanges.
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.
